Form Quotes

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

For the Atma there is no time and there is no form. It is beyond time and beyond form.

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.